Social behaviors are essential for the survival and reproduction of social species. Many, if
not most, neuropsychiatric disorders in humans are either associated with underlying social …

In the field of animal behavior, effective methods to apprehend causal relationships that
underlie the interactions between animals are in dire need. How to identify a leader in a …

Discretizing a nonlinear time series enables us to calculate its statistics fast and rigorously.
Before the turn of the century, the approach using partitions was dominant. In the last two …

Engagement is a key element in game design, and competition is frequently used to
enhance players' engagement. However, it is presently unclear how winning or losing might …

Seeking to match our emotional state with one of those around us is known as emotional
contagion-a fundamental biological process that underlies social behavior across several …

A list of new tests for serial dependence based on ordinal patterns is provided. These new
methods rely exclusively on the order structure of the data sets. Hence, the novel tests are …

The possibility of regulating the behavior of live animals using biologically-inspired robots
has attracted the interest of biologists and engineers for over 25 years. From early work on …

Many studies on collective animal behavior seek to identify the individual rules that underlie
collective patterns. However, it was not until the recent advancements of micro-electronic …

Detecting causal relationships in complex systems from the time series of the individual units
is a pressing area of research that has attracted the interest of a broad community. As an …

Inferring network topologies from the time series of individual units is of paramount
importance in the study of biological and social networks. Despite considerable progress …